#Missouri executes #MarcellusWilliams despite prosecutors’ objections

Marcellus Williams, who spent >2 decades on Missouri’s death row convicted of a 1998 murder that he says he did not commit, died by lethal injection Tues evening after a lengthy & complex effort to exonerate him based on #DNA testing issues.

Williams, 55, was pronounced dead at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point.

#law #SCOTUS #DeathPenalty
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/24/marcellus-williams-execution-missouri-faq/